Racing Industry
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The latest news, features and analysis on the industry which runs racing.
Memsie Stakes meeting to mark return of 10-race metro cards in Victoria
Racing Victoria has announced that 10-race metropolitan meetings will return between August 31 and April 26 in the 2024/25 season.
Ageless and priceless - Bella Nipotina’s journey to the top of Australian racing
Tattersall’s Tiara favourite Bella Nipotina is an unsung phenom in Australian racing as her career continues to climb to new heights at an age most elite racemares are preparing for motherhood.
Decade-long Snowden family training partnership to dissolve
Paul Snowden will step down as co-trainer at Snowden Racing, leaving his father Peter to run the operation alone in the 2024/25 racing season.
A slice of the action - how Australian racing shares its prize money riches
Australian prize money levels are gold standard in world racing and on the eve of the final Group 1 race of the 2023/24 season, we examine who does it best when rewarding the winners of our best races.
Sires’ shift gears South Australia towards spring
One of South Australia’s key two-year-old races has found itself a place at the end of the racing season, with the Group 3 SAJC Sires’ Produce Stakes to be the final juvenile stakes race of 2023/24.
What is the status of the sale of Rosehill racecourse?
Six months on from the shock announcement that the Australian Turf Club is considering selling Rosehill racecourse, The Straight has examined the project's status, what we know, and what we don’t know.
“Shoulder-to-shoulder” - Ladbrokes backs in Tasmanian racing with new sponsorship deal
Global wagering giant Entain will extend its support of Tasmania’s three racing codes after announcing a new five-year sponsorship deal between its Ladbrokes brand and Tasracing.